Geography - Revision history

JoeyJ: The main fields of study in Human geography are Economic, Cultural, Settlement, Political and Population geography.

2016-11-06T12:07:43Z

The main fields of study in Human geography are Economic, Cultural, Settlement, Political and Population geography.

Dave07: Replaced semicolon with a colon. Colons lead lists, and semicolons are part of them.

2012-12-05T23:14:44Z

Replaced semicolon with a colon. Colons lead lists, and semicolons are part of them.

Joaquín Martínez: /* Physical Geography */

2011-02-22T18:15:51Z

Physical Geography

Joaquín Martínez at 18:15, February 22, 2011

2011-02-22T18:15:29Z

Michael4: expanded article

2011-01-28T03:42:39Z

expanded article

DWiggins at 23:49, November 16, 2009

2009-11-16T23:49:16Z

WesleyS: lnks

2008-11-25T02:13:13Z

lnks

Papabear1: Undo revision 558825 by WesleyS (Talk) 'affects' and 'affected' is correct for the context i think

2008-11-15T20:39:42Z

Undo revision 558825 by WesleyS (Talk) 'affects' and 'affected' is correct for the context i think

WesleyS: sp

2008-11-15T20:38:21Z

WesleyS at 20:37, November 15, 2008

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 ==Human geography==
 An example of human geography is studying the placement of flowers by friends and relatives of those who have died in car accidents, at the site of the accident itself.<ref>Hartig K.V and Dunn K.M. "Roadside Memorials: Interpreting New Deathscapes in Newcastle, New South Wales" in ''Australian Geographical Studies'', Volume 36, Issue 1, pp. 5–20, (March 1998) [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8470.00036/abstract]</ref>
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 '''Geography''' is "the study of the [[physical]] features of the [[Earth]] and its [[atmosphere]], and of [[human]] activity as it affects and is affected by these." <ref>Soanes and Stevenson (2005) The Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.</ref>
-As a subject it can generally be divided into two major components; physical geography, concerning Earth system processes, and human geography, concerning human activities across the Earth. There is a large degree of overlap between these two, and geography is regarded as the subject that bridges the arts and the sciences.
+As a subject it can generally be divided into two major components: physical geography, concerning Earth system processes, and human geography, concerning human activities across the Earth. There is a large degree of overlap between these two, and geography is regarded as the subject that bridges the arts and the sciences.
 ==Physical Geography==

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	Physical geography helped establish the absolute location of towns, countries, landmasses and oceans. A typical way of identifying a given place's location is to express it as co-ordinates in [[latitude]] and [[longitude]]. Due to the curvature of the earth, the co-ordinates represent the projection of a location in three dimensions (i.e. on the surface of the earth) to two dimensions (i.e. a point on a map). As the earth is not perfectly spherical, the reliance upon a single projection for the entire world is unreliable and would result in distortions and inaccuracies (relative to the place's location on the earth). For this reason, there are many types of map projections, such as Lamberts Conformal Conic and Mercator projection. Similar to other measurements (such as length), a given geographic co-ordinate can be expressed in different ways, such as decimal degrees (e.g. 40.718119,-74.003906 for New York) or degrees, minutes and seconds (e.g. 40° 43' 5.2284", -74° 0' 14.0616").		Physical geography helped establish the absolute location of towns, countries, landmasses and oceans. A typical way of identifying a given place's location is to express it as co-ordinates in [[latitude]] and [[longitude]]. Due to the curvature of the earth, the co-ordinates represent the projection of a location in three dimensions (i.e. on the surface of the earth) to two dimensions (i.e. a point on a map). As the earth is not perfectly spherical, the reliance upon a single projection for the entire world is unreliable and would result in distortions and inaccuracies (relative to the place's location on the earth). For this reason, there are many types of map projections, such as Lamberts Conformal Conic and Mercator projection. Similar to other measurements (such as length), a given geographic co-ordinate can be expressed in different ways, such as decimal degrees (e.g. 40.718119,-74.003906 for New York) or degrees, minutes and seconds (e.g. 40° 43' 5.2284", -74° 0' 14.0616").
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	Physical geography helped establish the absolute location of towns, countries, landmasses and oceans. A typical way of identifying a given place's location is to express it as co-ordinates in [[latitude]] and [[longitude]]. Due to the curvature of the earth, the co-ordinates represent the projection of a location in three dimensions (i.e. on the surface of the earth) to two dimensions (i.e. a point on a map). As the earth is not perfectly spherical, the reliance upon a single projection for the entire world is unreliable and would result in distortions and inaccuracies (relative to the place's location on the earth). For this reason, there are many types of map projections, such as Lamberts Conformal Conic and Mercator projection. Similar to other measurements (such as length), a given geographic co-ordinate can be expressed in different ways, such as decimal degrees (e.g. 40.718119,-74.003906 for New York) or degrees, minutes and seconds (e.g. 40° 43' 5.2284", -74° 0' 14.0616").		Physical geography helped establish the absolute location of towns, countries, landmasses and oceans. A typical way of identifying a given place's location is to express it as co-ordinates in [[latitude]] and [[longitude]]. Due to the curvature of the earth, the co-ordinates represent the projection of a location in three dimensions (i.e. on the surface of the earth) to two dimensions (i.e. a point on a map). As the earth is not perfectly spherical, the reliance upon a single projection for the entire world is unreliable and would result in distortions and inaccuracies (relative to the place's location on the earth). For this reason, there are many types of map projections, such as Lamberts Conformal Conic and Mercator projection. Similar to other measurements (such as length), a given geographic co-ordinate can be expressed in different ways, such as decimal degrees (e.g. 40.718119,-74.003906 for New York) or degrees, minutes and seconds (e.g. 40° 43' 5.2284", -74° 0' 14.0616").
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 As a subject it can generally be divided into two major components; physical geography, concerning Earth system processes, and human geography, concerning human activities across the Earth. There is a large degree of overlap between these two, and geography is regarded as the subject that bridges the arts and the sciences.
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−	'''Geography''' is "the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it ~~effects~~ and is ~~effected~~ by these." <ref>Soanes and Stevenson (2005) The Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.</ref>	+	'''Geography''' is "the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these." <ref>Soanes and Stevenson (2005) The Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.</ref>

	As a subject it can generally be divided into two major components; physical geography, concerning earth system processes, and human geography, concerning human activities across the earth. There is a large degree of overlap between these two, and geography is regarded as the subject that bridges the arts and the sciences.		As a subject it can generally be divided into two major components; physical geography, concerning earth system processes, and human geography, concerning human activities across the earth. There is a large degree of overlap between these two, and geography is regarded as the subject that bridges the arts and the sciences.

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−	'''Geography''' is "the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it ~~affects~~ and is ~~affected~~ by these." <ref>Soanes and Stevenson (2005) The Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.</ref>	+	'''Geography''' is "the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it effects and is effected by these." <ref>Soanes and Stevenson (2005) The Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.</ref>

	As a subject it can generally be divided into two major components; physical geography, concerning earth system processes, and human geography, concerning human activities across the earth. There is a large degree of overlap between these two, and geography is regarded as the subject that bridges the arts and the sciences.		As a subject it can generally be divided into two major components; physical geography, concerning earth system processes, and human geography, concerning human activities across the earth. There is a large degree of overlap between these two, and geography is regarded as the subject that bridges the arts and the sciences.

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-'''Geography''' is "the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these" <ref>Soanes and Stevenson (2005) The Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.</ref>
+'''Geography''' is "the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these." <ref>Soanes and Stevenson (2005) The Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.</ref>
 As a subject it can generally be divided into two major components; physical geography, concerning earth system processes, and human geography, concerning human activities across the earth. There is a large degree of overlap between these two, and geography is regarded as the subject that bridges the arts and the sciences.
 [[Category:Science]]